Kilduff's
Train Station page is not intended as a history
of the old train stations in town, simply as a
look through several old postcards and pictures
to see what Baltimore has to offer.
Comments, as always, are welcome.
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Mount
Royal StationThe Mount Royal
Station has to be the most photographed train
station in Baltimore. Postcards can be found
of the old rail station for nearly any year.
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The five postcards
seen below are only a sample of the views taken
of the old station over the years. No longer used
as a train station, the building is now used as
part of the Maryland Institute of Art campus.
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Union
Station Before
Pennsylvania Station, Baltimore's main line
train station was an older structure known as
Union Station. Union Station was torn down and
the current Penn Station was constructed at
the same site, and for a while the newer train
station went under the name of Union Station,
later being changed to the current name.
According to reports back in the day, the old
station made it difficult to get to the
trains, as you had to walk over the tracks to
get to the boarding platform.

President Street StationBaltimore's oldest passenger
station. What you see below is all that survives
of the old station, which for years sat vacant. The
station opened as a passenger station but in later
years handled freight only. Apparently , some of
the old station burned down in the 1980's .
The President Street Station had
sheds that extended East and was later used as a
freight station. The area around the station is
prime commerical property today, but efforts
were made to save the remaining section of the
train station. Many years back, train sheds
extended from the rear of the building.

............... Looking off the Orleans Street
Viaduct ( below ) , this " aerial " view of the
Calvert Street Station shows a view that has completely
changed today. The Standard Oil building is stands
today ( converted into Condos ) and of course the
Washington Monument is still there, but much
of the view, including the smaller houses on
Calvert Street have long been replaced. The
pictures below shows the same view , but with
the photographer on the ground this time.
Before the Calvert Street Station, the site
was reportedly a " Roman style " Amphitheatre.

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line for the Calvert Street Station, torn down for the
Calvert Street Sunpapers building .

Hillen Street Station

Picture to
the below is NOT the old Hillen Street Station. It
is close to the area where the old train station
once stood and might have been part of the complex
or a warehouse used in relation to the train station.
The Hillen Street train Station was torn down
years ago and so far, I haven't been able to
find a picture to post.